The relationship of tooth shade and skin tone and its influence on smile attractiveness in native South Indians: A web-based cross sectional survey by Hrudi Sundar Sahoo, Aishwarya Balasubramanian

“…Lighter tooth shades such as FS1T1 and FS2T1 scored means of 6.88 and 7.27 respectively for females, while darker shades like FS1T4 scored lower with a mean of 4.95. Similarly, males showed a preference for lighter tooth shades with MS1T1 and MS2T1 scoring means of 5.57 and 5.78 respectively compared to darker shades like MS1T4 with a mean of 3.63. …”
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Adaptive Path Planning for Multi-UAV Systems in Dynamic 3D Environments: A Multi-Objective Framework by Gregorius Airlangga, Ronald Sukwadi, Widodo Widjaja Basuki, Lai Ferry Sugianto, Oskar Ika Adi Nugroho, Yoel Kristian, Radyan Rahmananta

“…Its angular deviation of 8.0° ensures smoother trajectories than traditional methods like Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). …”
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Liver cancer: expression features of hepatitis B antigens by V. A. Tumanskiy, M. D. Zubko

“…People chronically infected with HBV are 20 times more likely to develop liver cancer than uninfected people [1,22,28]. …”
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Cloning of the Ajcaspase-8 Gene and Its Temporal Expression and Distribution Analyses During Embryonic Development in the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by Xiaojing ZHANG, Chanchan ZHANG, Deyou MA, Jiayi LIANG, Meizhu YAO, Ziji LI

“…Taken together, these results show that the Ajcaspase-8 gene is likely to play important roles in the metamorphosis and A. japonicus attachment, suggesting that it could initiate cell apoptosis to participate in morphological reconstruction and immune defense during the crucial process of ontogenesis in this species. …”
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Evolving Techniques and Indications of Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty by Özlem Evren Kemer, Emine Esra Karaca, Silke Oellerich, Gerrit Melles

“…It offers faster, more predictable, stable visual recovery and low rejection rates while the surgery itself is less invasive. …”
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Acquisition and Processing of GPS signals based on Software Defined Radio by Lucas Castillo Delacroix, Mariano Fagre, Isidoro Vaquila, Miguel Angel Cabrera

“…This paper presents the development of a software tool that implements an acquisition block for GPS signals using SDR technology, specifically devices like the HackRF One and RTL-SDR. The tool, implemented  in Python, successfully detects satellites and estimates their parameters, offering customizable algorithm settings and the capability to visualize the satellite search space in three dimensions. …”
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Seeing Is Feeding for the Frugivorous Bird Brown-Eared Bulbul (Microscelis amaurotis) by Takeshi Honda, Jun-ichi Tsuboi, Hiroshi Kuwata

“…We examined feeding behavior by visually blocking fruit to establish a new theory of bird damage management for agricultural practices. …”
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Pancreatic β-cell regeneration in situ by the ALK3 agonist THR-123 by Silvia Álvarez-Cubela, Isabella D. Altilio, Mayur Doke, Dagmar Klein, Alejandro Tamayo, Óscar Alcázar, Carlos García Santana, Mirza Muhammad Fahd Qadir, Charles García Alver, Francis Cruz, Olivia Biggs, Jorge David Tovar Castro, Belén Navarro-Rubio, Camillo Ricordi, Alejandro Caicedo, Peter Buchwald, Ashutosh Agarwal, Elisa Oltra, Ricardo Luis Pastori, Juan Domínguez-Bendala

“…Abstract The demonstration that BMP signaling activates progenitor-like populations within pancreatic ducts supports the potential use of BMP receptor agonists to induce islet neogenesis in situ. …”
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Orbital apex syndrome and ophthalmic artery occlusion caused by acute sinusitis by Dan Liao, Xiaoli Yang, Rong Li

“…Abstract Background Acute sinusitis is a common condition that rarely leads to severe complications like orbital apex syndrome and ophthalmic artery occlusion, which can cause significant vision loss and require prompt diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Traditional Cuisine in Brazilian Popular Catholicism Festivities: The Azorean Holy Spirit Pastry in Florianópolis by Renata Siuda-Ambroziak, Roseane L. Panini

“…Baked according to traditional Azorean recipes in the shape of a body part, a person’s whole body or an object for which the worshipper who commissions it would like to symbolically thank the Holy Spirit for having performed a miracle of healing, the product is an elements of the Azorean cultural heritage in need of protection. …”
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Post-Pandemic Indonesian Tourism Promotion in Instagram: Multimodal Discourse Analysis by Arina Isti'anah, Shafira Rahmasari, Stefanny Lauwren

“…This paper also analyzed the mood structures and transitivity patterns in the captions, including the phrase like “post-pandemic trip” to strengthen the analysis. …”
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The effect of roadside on speed perception by Martin Rak, Martin Bilík

“…The findings suggest that flat areas consistently lead to overestimations of speed, likely due to the lack of physical cues that provide visual references. …”
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Diving Deep into the Word of God: A Sufi Approach to Religious and Trans-Religious Images by Haris Dervišević, Meliha Teparić

“…Teparić’s art, particularly in pieces like <i>To Douse Out Hell and Burn Down Paradise</i> and <i>Gens Una Sumus</i>, delves into Sufi thought, reflecting the belief that divine love transcends religious boundaries. …”
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Emerging therapeutic approaches in graves’ ophthalmopathy: an update on pharmacological interventions by Lin Wang, Linlin Chen

“…This review summarizes recent advances in the drug therapy of active GO, focusing on novel immunomodulators, biological agents such as monoclonal antibodies targeting CD20, IL-6 R, and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R), and evolving treatment strategies based on disease activity and severity. …”
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Snapshots. Images, Crowds, Thoughts. A Conversation With Susan Buck-Moss by Aurora Fernández Polanco

“…The conversation will be interwoven with this factory of thought that regards the image as a fundamental tool of political theory, with all that is implied –for the emergence of a new culture– in the possibility of sharing it (Visual Studies and Global Imagination, 2004). The events that went off like simultaneous powder kegs –Arab spring, 15-M, occupy movements, etc.– true devices of bodies, words, images and gestures, proved that this new culture would also favor the emergence of a new policy, the potency (not the power) of what she has called the translocal commons (On Translocal Commons and the Global Crowd, 2013). …”
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What am I doing here? Making sense of why I am drawing in an empty care home residents’ lounge by Ellen Bell

“…Though usually associated with on-the-spot news-gathering, and harking back to the nineteenth-century mode of visual reporting for the illustrated newspapers, such actively-present drawing—exemplified contemporarily by artists like Lucinda Rogers and Linda Kitson—continues to be at the core of contemporary reportage drawing. …”
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Quantitative metrics for evaluating surgical dexterity using virtual reality simulations. by Mingyu Wu, Cham Ying Kit, Eileen Lee Ming Su, Che Fai Yeong, Siti Nor Zawani Ahmmad, William Holderbaum, Chenguang Yang

“…By employing advanced VR technology, this research systematically investigates the influence of controlled experimental factors-posture, handedness, and visual magnification-on surgical performance. The impact of human factors such as surgical specialty, experience, and lifestyle factors like sleep and caffeine consumption on surgical dexterity is also analyzed. …”
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Test kresby rodiny ako indikátor rodinnej ideológie by Monika Sirkovská

“…End-of-conference, author would like to highlight that anthropologist has to detect the specific socio-cultural environment of studied families, because its knowledge plays the key role in the complex interpretation of visual material.…”
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Ideology placement in the context of cinema's emancipation from narrative via atmosphere by Krašovec Primož

“…As advertising transitioned from intrusive propaganda to seductive experience, it freed its visual dimension from the constraints of representation and allowed it to develop in a process of free experimentation, much like the avant-garde tendencies in contemporary art. …”
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Recurrent models of orientation selectivity enable robust early-vision processing in mixed-signal neuromorphic hardware by Valentina Baruzzi, Giacomo Indiveri, Silvio P. Sabatini

“…By developing a recurrent spiking neural network model of the retinocortical visual pathway, we show how such noisy and heterogeneous computing substrate can produce linear receptive fields tuned to visual stimuli with specific orientations and spatial frequencies. …”
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